Environment and Urbanization

Current issue

Tomorrow’s cities: co-designing urban futures for equitable resilience

April 2026 - Sage

This special issue of Environment and Urbanization addresses the immense challenges to our cities and their current and future inhabitants from the combined pressures of climate change and rapid urbanisation.

The issue brings together work from across the sciences and from the viewpoints of policymakers and local actors to help define the action space that could support more inclusive risk-informed urban planning. It includes perspectives from the global community of practice associated with the Tomorrow’s Cities programme, which focused on 10 cities in the global South.

About Environment & Urbanization

Environment & Urbanization (E&U) provides researchers, NGO staff and professionals with the chance to write about their work, present their ideas and debate on issues.

It promotes the work of French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking authors by arranging for the translation of their work into English. It is one of the few journals on Africa, Asia and Latin America where a majority of the authors come from these regions.

Each issue is distributed to more than 8,000 universities, teaching institutions, NGOs and individuals in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as to over 1,500 subscribers in high-income nations. It has a five-year impact factor of 3.2.

With issues published twice a year since 1989, Environment & Urbanization is one of the most widely read and distributed journals in its field. Its popularity is helped by its low price, the free subscriptions available to NGOs and teaching/training institutions in the South who find it difficult to obtain foreign exchange (with support from Sida and UK Aid from the UK government), and an active advisory board (most of whom are from NGOs and research institutes in Africa, Asia and Latin America).

Each issue has a special theme and includes: